Looove Connection Concluded

I wrapped the Looove Connection up today with a few more terrible dating stories. But I also had one more nice story to tell, and I decided to do it here. It carries a very hopeful message.

This story comes from a 75-year-old woman who many years ago was married and working in a local jewelry store. Their letter-carrier there was a guy named Ken. They would talk about traveling and other things they both liked to do, and they became pretty friendly.

After the divorce, she was down in the dumps. She said, “I had a friend named Janet, and she did line dancing and she wanted to go line dancing to get me out of the house. I said, ‘I’m not going, I don’t have a partner.’ She said, ‘You don’t need a partner. Remember the mailman who used to go to the jewelry store? He’ll dance with you.

“She told him she was going to bring me, and he said, ‘Bring her, I’ll dance with her.’ So I went and he danced with me.” They all went together for coffee afterward, and the two began meeting regularly at line dances. They began talking about things they liked to do, and one night he mentioned that country singer Tanya Tucker was coming to the West End Fair and he’d like to see her. “If I could get tickets, would you go?” he asked.

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She would. “That was our first date.”

Later, they went to a blue grass festival and eventually began traveling together, including a trip to Branson, Mo. Two years after that first dance, they were married.

She told me they did lots of traveling as a married couple. As I mentioned earlier, she’s 75 now and Ken, a decorated Korean War veteran, is 84. “So now,” she said, “we’re in retirement age and we sit home and look at all the things we went to.”

Her message from the perspective of two people who lost love – to death and divorce -- and found it again? “Happiness can come back, and the second time is even better than the first.”